CASUALTIES: The Quick & the Dead

Few of the 250,000 U.S. soldiers, sailors
and marines who lost their lives in World War II had ever said where
they wanted their bodies to lie. Of the combat troops polled on the
question early this year by TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, the
great majority hoped that they would be buried near the scene of their
last battle, with their comrades-in-arms. But war widows and parents,
by & large, do not share these sentiments; by last week, the War
Department alone had received nearly 90,000 letters from next of kin
who want their soldiers' bodies brought back to the...